Blog 3

I was not able to get a hold of the movie, so I am going to work with what I saw in class and on youtube.com. I think the most surprising thing about the movie was the fact that I had never seriously thought about having the right to vote. When I voted in the presidential election this past year, I never stopped to think, wow, the women before me fought for this. I take a lot for granted, and I think many of us do. I mean it was not THAT long ago when Alice Paul and the NWP and NAWSA were fighting for the rights we have today. I understand that not all the women agreed with the tactics of Alice Paul and the NWP, but I feel like that had no choice. People expected the women to sit around and be polite while kindly asking for the right to vote. Alice Paul knew this wasn't working, and they had to take more drastic moves. The women were able to overcome their differences when they began to get unfairly treated in the prisons. No one deserves to be treated like that and forced fed, even if you don't agree with what they are doing. Alice Paul and the others finally defeated the President by having the support of hundreds and thousand of men and women behind them. I would like to think that I would be one of those supporters if I would have lived during that time, but who knows. It takes a lot of courage to stand up for something you truly believe in, I admire and respect all of the women involved in the movement. I can't even begin to think where we would be today without them. As for the readings, I am still working on hunting down the second book, FIFE. I plan to have it this week!